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Czech nursing home sector set to expand

Anavita, one of the three largest nursing home groups in the Czech Republic, plans to grow from six homes with 800 beds to 10 homes in the next 2 years. We caught up with David Volny, the co-owner of Anavita at the annual Healthcare Europa conference and talked to him about the Czech private nursing home sector.

Report: Trends and innovations in the elderly care market in Europe

Elderly care groups are expanding into new business models such as the step down market, homecare and domiciliary care to met the needs of Europe’s fast growing elderly population. Here we talk to policymakers, CEOs and academics about innovations and outline the five main trends: the personalisation of care, changes in payers attitude, a shift to homecare, and the emergence of an Eastern European market.

Orpea acquires French and Austrian operators

Two acquisitions have seen Orpea, Europe’s second largest residential care group, expand its homecare services and move into Austria and the Czech Reublic. It has bought ADHAP, the French domiciliary post-acute care specialist ADHAP and Austrian operator SeneCura. We spoke to Jean-Claude Marian, chairman at Orpea, about what’s next for the group.

Czech DRG reform could help private sector

The Czech government has set up a committee to reform payments. Called DRG Restart, it could end a regime in which payments vary widely from hospital to hospital and which militates against chronic disease management programmes. Meanwhile, the government finally abolished a hated CZK30 (€1) payment for visits to primary doctors.

Agel minority sells

Minority shareholder to sell stake in Agel, the largest Czech private hospital group.

AGEL looking internationally despite shareholder friction

The minority shareholder in AGEL, the big Czech and Slovak hospital group wants to sell or buy the entire group. But AGEL sources say majority owner Tomas Chrenek won't sell and is looking at opportunities internationally.

Euroclinicum to buy Medicover’s Czech franchisee

Czech hospital-to-occupational healthcare group Euroclinicum, which is majority owned by Tuffieh Funds, the maletse private equity group, is set to buy Medicover’s Czech arm. That follows on from another deal to buy a hospital in Kladno, near Prague, where Lego has a factory and Amazon has a big warehouse.

Euromedic appoints HSBC

Imaging services provider Euromedic has appointed HSBC to review the business. Bankers expect this to lead to a sale this autumn.

Babiš buys into IVF and gynae clinics

Czech billionaire and current Minister of Finance, Andrej Babiš has bought IVF clinics in Poland and the Czech Republic through a private equity fund he controls.

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